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SWING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 27, 1917. Serial No. 15134.0.

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in swing devices, more particularly to the class of lawn swings, and has for one of its objects to improve the construction and increase the eiliciency and utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character capable of seating one or more persons and wherein provision is made for enabling'the occupants of the sea'ts; to cause the swing to operate by pressure applied to a system of levers.

With these and other objects in' view, the invention consists-in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claim; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved device.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation with the head portion of the supporting frame in longitudinal section.

Fig. 3 is an end elevation with the head portion of the supporting frame in transverse section.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in, all the views of the drawings: by the same reference characters.

The improved device comprises a supporting frame including a head or bodyformed of side members 10-11 disposed in spaced relation and provided at the. ends with spaced blocks 12- 13. The supporting portion of the device likewise includes leg members 14 coupled to the terminals of the head members 10-11 by strap devices 15. The leg members 14 are disposed obliquely to the longitudinal plane of the head memher so that at their lower ends the leg memhere are spread apart, as shown in Fig. 1, to insure the stability of the supporting structure. The leg members are arranged in pairs, and connected respectively by tverse brace members 16. The legs are likewise reinforced by obliquely directed brace members 17 bolted at their ends to the leg members, and likewise coupled at their crossing points by bolts 18. At the junctures of the brace members 16 and leg mem- Patented Apr. so, rare.

bers 11 brace blocks 19 are inserted and secured by bolts or like devices.

By this means a very stifl' and rigid supporting frame is produced which will hold the head portion of the device firmly in position and prevent laterally or longitudinally.

Pivoted at 20 between the side members 1011 is the main swing supporting stock or bar 21. Bearing upon opposite sides of its displacement the lower eiid of the member 21 are seat supporting rails 22, the rails being bolted or otherwise secured rigidly to the member 21 and further supported by spaced blocks 23 and brace devices 23. Attached to the outer portions of the members 22 are seats 2% each having a supporting back 25, the latter extending at its lower end to a line level with the lower faces of the members 22 and bearing against the ends of the same,

as shown. in Figs. 1 and 2. Depending fromthe rail members 21 near each of the seats is a hanger 26 with the lower ends outturned as shown at 27, and supporting footrest rails 28 to which a plurality of slats 29 are secured. The members 26, 28 and 29 thus form an efl'ectual foot rest for the occupants of the seat.

Mounted to swing at 36 upon eachside of the member 21 are bars or levers 30 having transverse handles 31 secured to their ends. the handle members being within con venient reach of the occupants of the seats.

Pivoted at 32 between the side members 10- 1l of the head portion of the device is another bar 33 extending in parallel relation to the member 21 and pivoted at 34 between the lever members 30. The member 33 is spaced a considerable distance from the member 21 as shown more particularly, in Fig. 2.

The head members 1011 and suspension member 21 and the lever device 33 are preferably of Wood, and suitable metal wear plates indicated at 35, 'are applied to the members 21-33 where they extend between the members 10-11 and between the memhere 30, to prevent undue friction between the wood members. The members 22 are v likewise of Wood, While the bracket devices? 23 and of metal.

' The improved device is designed more particularly for the use of children, and it Will be obvious that When the seats are occupied the handles 31 are in convenient position to be grasped by the hand, and by forcibly depressing or elevating the handles a leverage action will be produced between the members 21 and 33 to causethe member 21 to swing upon its pivot 20 and thus pro-- duce the swinging motion, and'the greater the force applied to the handles and the lever members 30 the greater 'Will be the swinging movement. After the motion has been -produced it may be maintained indefinitely by the exercise of relatively light force upon thehandles.

The. foot rest members 29 enable the ocb'racing by the ,feet to apply the requisite cupant of the seat to secure the necessary" te-tea Having thus described the invention, What is claimed as new is-.

' In a swing, a support, a suspension member winging from'said support, rails' rigidly connectedto the opposite faces of said suspension member and extending laterally therefrom, seats carried by the -rails and extending structed beyond the rails, lever members pivoted intermediate their ends to the opposite faces of said suspension member, grip bars connected intermediate their ends to said lever members and extending in parallel relation to the longitudinal planes of the seats, 'tively to the levers and to the support and spaced from the suspension member, and foot rests supported from the rails, and extending laterally beyond the vertical planes of the same. w

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